This collection comprises the papers of Bob Mattingly, a member and leader of Brewery, Soda and Mineral Water Bottlers of California Local Union No. 896, Affiliated with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America. It also includes records of the activites and statuses of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) and Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU). It includes correspondence, convention reports and publications, flyers, newsletters, meeting notes, constitution proposals, newspaper articles, contracts, video recordings, and black-and-white and color photographs and negatives.

Bob Mattingly (Robert Ramon Mattingly) January 4, 1933-May 27, 2004 was a trade unionist and political activist who lived in Oakland, California. He was a member of Brewery, Soda and Mineral Water Bottlers of California Local Union No. 896, Affiliated with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, for 35 years and Union Business Representative for Local Union No. 896 from 1985-1988. He was an advocate for the working class and the democratic rank-and-file labor movement, in addition to being involved in labor and socialist political parties and writing for labor various publications under the pseudonym Charles Walker.

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